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Taiwan tensions don't need to lead to 'anything like confrontation' -Pentagon

Published 01/29/2021, 05:26 AM
Updated 01/29/2021, 05:30 AM

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Pentagon reaffirmed its
longstanding support to Taiwan's self-defense on Thursday and
said there was no reason that tensions between China and Taiwan
"need to lead to anything like confrontation."
The remarks by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby were the first
by President Joe Biden's military about China-Taiwan tensions
since he took office last week. They followed remarks by China's
defense ministry earlier on Thursday that independence for
Taiwan "means war." China claims Taiwan as its own territory and believes that
Taiwan's democratically elected government is moving the island
toward a declaration of formal independence, though Taiwan
President Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly said it is already an
independent country called the Republic of China, its formal
name.

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